THOUSANDS of people gathered at the campus of the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) for the general assembly of an organization that had promised them a share in the alleged Marcos millions. They all held aloft copies of a pamphlet extolling the achievements of President Ferdinand Marcos which they had purchased for P30 each.

MEDIA’s invention of “presumptive president” as applied to you-know-who – no wonder he insists on being addressed as Mayor – had the Political Innocent in Residence exclaiming that presumptively, Digong’s win will spell presumptive victory for Donald Trump in that parallel universe of our May elections and America’s November polls. (Once upon a time our elections were also held in November, but that’s water under the overpass.)

HERE comes Sen. Koko Pimentel, who’s only the head of incoming President Duterte’s political party, threatening to “put behind bars” the Venezuelan general manager and project manager of Smartmatic, “for all the abuses and underdeliveries (that) should be factored in by Comelec” that tainted the integrity of the vote count.

Liberal Party vice presidential candidate Leni Robredo is getting deeply concerned about the rising popularity of Senator Bongbong Marcos who is now leading the race for the second highest post of the land in the latest Pulse Asia survey.